Page 1 of 5 Boundary/Enrollment Committee Meeting Monday, September 18, 2017 Minutes Objectives • Review four scenarios for possible boundary changes o Dr. Tammaru asked committee to think of all 2,200 students • Provide feedback and input to scenarios • Select the top one or two options to present to the Board in October Review of Previous Meetings • Strategic Plan • The “WHYS” o Increase in students being admin transferred o Take pressure off of Park View; utilize space at other building o Fiscal responsibility District Financial Projections • District projects a $1.2M deficit for 2017-18, $1-$1.7M deficit each year over next four years • Graph purple line (cash on hand) goes red in FY2020 (need to issue short term debt) o Sharp decline in 2018 due changes in school calendar. School ends in May before early taxes are received on June 1 st . Teachers receive summer pay last week of school. • Current budget assumptions include 10.4 additional staff needed due to projected increase in enrollment (Demographer Kasarda’s Spring 2016 report) over a five-year period. • Tax cap designed so school district would have to go to community for referendum and could not raise levy without restrictions • Last year’s admin transfer bus routes cost ($70K/year) for transferring about 100 students. Eliminated double routes this year but at cost of longer bus routes for some children (30 additional minutes each way) • Changing boundaries will require hiring projected teachers earlier than Kasarda’s projection Current Boundaries • 106 students admin transferred o No longer double bus route, however, longer bus routes adding 30 minutes to morning and afternoon routes • $2.3M additional personnel cost over five-year period based on Kasarda’s report • New to situation is the projected Harding Avenue subdivision o While nothing has been approved, land has been cleared o Students would be walkers to Park View Criteria for Evaluating Scenarios • Best for all students • Aligned to District Strategic Plan • Minimal disruption
o Notpickingonneighborhoodbutallowsformovementofapproximately150studentswithoneneighborhood.Allothermovementof150studentswouldrequiremultipleneighborhoodsbeingmoved.
o Committeesintentiontokeepneighborhoodstogether• ConsistenttoallscenariosexceptScenarioAismovingPreschooltoBriarGlen• ScenarioA
o MovesInternationalVillagefromParkViewtoWestfieldo LeavesPreschoolatArborViewo Movestwoself-containedspecialed.classroomsfromWestfieldtoBriarGleno Moves155studentso Scenariocosts$869,778(needtoaddstaffearlier)o Westfieldhas20classrooms,firstyearrequires21K-5classroomso Scenariowouldstillrequiresignificantadministrativetransfersorbuildingadditionto
o Table#1(Battles,Bruno,DeMayo,Hewick,Kron,Wessel)1stChoice: D 2ndChoice: C 3rdChoice: BFirstchoice(D)sustainability,cost/finances,secondchoiceC,andthirdchoiceB
o Table#2(Dawson,Ewald,Hornig,Jones,Sridhar,Windeler)1stChoice: D 2ndChoice: C 3rdChoice: BFirstchoice(D)similarreasons,second/thirdchoiceclose–lessdisruption
o Table#3(DePorter,Gresham,Langman,Lichtenheld,Ricci,Youngblood)1stChoice: D 2ndChoice: B 3rdChoice: CFirstchoice(D)similarreasons,second/thirdchoiceclose–contiguousneighborhoods
o Table#4(Hardtke,Jedlicka,Johnson/LegatArchitects,Klaus,Muneer,Yates)1stChoice: D 2ndChoice: B 3rdChoice: CFirstchoice(D)similarreasons,second/thirdchoiceclose–cost,butcontiguousneighborhoods
o Committeediscussedfamilieswillinitiallybesurprisedandunhappywithchange.Changeisdifficult.Groupdiscussedthatallourschoolsaregreatschools,withqualitystaff,andsupportivePTCsandparents.AllelementaryschoolsfeedintoGlenCrestMiddleSchool,thentoGlenbardSouthHighSchool.
o AllelementarybuildingsareworkingontransitionplanninginconjunctionwithPTCactivities
o Committeemembercommentedthatcommitteeisfocusingon40somestudentsbeingmovedoutofWestfieldbuthasforgottenaboutthe155studentsthatwillbemovedfromInternationalVillage.ShecommentedthatresidentswillbesadtoleaveParkViewbutfeelsresidentswillhumblyrespectthechange.
